The XML (and HTML and JSP) Editor selection, which represents both the selected DOM Nodes and text selection now allows for the select Node to be an Attr Node (attribute). Listeners who were written to handle Element Nodes may wish to use Attr.getOwnerElement() in this case.

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The XML (and HTML and JSP) Editor selection, which represents both the selected DOM Nodes and text selection, now allows for the selected Node to be an Attr Node (attribute). Listeners who were written to handle Element Nodes may wish to use Attr.getOwnerElement() in this case.

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=== Reference ===

=== Reference ===

Revision as of 16:56, 8 January 2009

This page to to collect miscellaneous notes and pointers to changes coming up in the WTP 3.1 (Galileo) release. Its purpose it to be a central "jump off" point for those adopters of WTP 3.0 that are moving to WTP 3.1. Most of this information may be already contained in various mailing lists and Bugzilla reports, but it is believed best to have a central place to get people started.

Adopters: if you run into trouble or notice things that are not covered here, please let us know (wtp-dev@eclipse.org is a good place). This will not only help us keep these notes up to date, but will help us better learn, over time, the discipline of "platform development" and help make sure we learn to provide compatible APIs, migration instructions, etc., in the future. It is not always easy, but our intent is to make it as simple and painless as possible for adopters to use WTP as a true platform.

One thing we have learned in the past is that some adopters do not move with us to every new release. Some early adopters went from 0.7 directly to 1.5, for example. Unfortunately, it is hard for us to present the information in that way, covering perhaps multiple changes, but hopefully as we develop these for each release, they will all flow together to aid adopters.

Note: as these notes develop and grow in number, they may occasionally be re-organized into categories, etc.

Contents

Versioning changes

Remember you can always view the versions and version changes for each build, by following the "Versioning Information" link on each build page. For example, see the one for WTP 3.1 M4.

Following are some of the noteworthy 'minor' field changes.

Common Components

The Faceted Project framework needed to increment the minor version in the 3.1 code stream to reflect the changes that happened in that code.

Bundle

Version change

org.eclipse.wst.common.project.facet.core

1.3.100 -> 1.4.0

org.eclipse.wst.common.project.facet.ui

1.3.100 -> 1.4.0

org.eclipse.jst.common.project.facet.core

1.3.100 -> 1.4.0

org.eclipse.jst.common.project.facet.ui

1.3.100 -> 1.4.0

Source Editing

Bundle

Version change

Trigger

org.eclipse.wst.xml.ui

1.0.4xx -> 1.1.0

Refactoring of Outline View Configuration

Source Editing Components

Selection in the XML/HTML/JSP Editors

The XML (and HTML and JSP) Editor selection, which represents both the selected DOM Nodes and text selection, now allows for the selected Node to be an Attr Node (attribute). Listeners who were written to handle Element Nodes may wish to use Attr.getOwnerElement() in this case.